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« on: 22:27:07, 06-04-2007 » |
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If you have a Tchibo shop in your vicinity, it might be worth investigating the "travel headphones" 237389 which they are currently selling (possibly only until next Tuesday). At £25 (or £20 with the promotional discount I turned out to be entitled to today), they seem surprisingly good. Tchibo use the term "noise blocking", but the effect when flicking the associated switch (having installed the two AAA cells) produces the same sort of noise 'cancelling' I get with my Sennheisers. They are of the closed back type, fold up to fit in a soft pseudo-leather zip-up case/bag approximately 130x130x60mm. A pair of AAA cells and a couple of different plug adaptors are included in the box.
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George Garnett
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« Reply #2 on: 15:25:07, 07-04-2007 » |
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Thank you for that, Bryn. I'd never ventured into a 'Tchibo' before but as a result of your recommendation I am now the proud owner of a £20 pair of 'Noise-Bloking Hoof Telephones'.
I remain as mystified as ever though as to what a 'Tchibo' actually is. I sidled in with my collar turned up just in case anyone from the Rotary Club happened to be passing. I don't think I was seen. I was half expecting a police raid at any moment. Either that or the shutters coming down and no one being allowed to leave until we had all agreed to buy a timeshare holiday.
Another one to add to the list of R3 MessageBoard new experiences. So far that's going through the plastic curtains into William Hill's to put a fiver on Orange Stravinsky, entering one of those Public Drinking Houses the other week, a night out with Helmut Lachenmann, and now Tchibos. And people say I haven't lived!
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« Reply #3 on: 15:44:59, 07-04-2007 » |
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...and there's so much more to come, George. SO much more.  |
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« Reply #4 on: 15:58:38, 07-04-2007 » |
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Another one to add to the list of R3 MessageBoard new experiences. So far that's going through the plastic curtains into William Hill's to put a fiver on Orange Stravinsky, entering one of those Public Drinking Houses the other week, a night out with Helmut Lachenmann, and now Tchibos. And people say I haven't lived!
I hope you put a tenner on the nose of Fabuleux Millie! She's won twice for me the little darling.  Oh and don't forget you are the proud survivor of Mexican G igantes beans!!  |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #5 on: 16:15:06, 07-04-2007 » |
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Indeed yes, Milly! I hadn't even started on the culinary education available here. Without the help of a sensitive and understanding guide I doubt whether I would ever have had the courage to make those first faltering steps into the heady sensual world of the exotic legume.
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Bryn
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« Reply #6 on: 20:12:16, 07-04-2007 » |
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I remain as mystified as ever though as to what a 'Tchibo' actually is.
George, I am given to understand that the company started out as coffee importers, and later 'branched out'. According to the till operator I spoke to today, the big chief (effective owner) was in Windsor today for some reason connected with his daughter going to University in England, (I was not listening all that closely, I just wanted to get a spare set of headphones while they are at £20). I did also buy a couple of 100g jars of their "Gold" freeze dried instant coffee (BOGOF). I got a "Trecker's watch" from them last year. It has a very clear, large numeric display (very handy for timekeeping) but seems less reliable regarding its barometric facility. The weather rarely seems to fit its indications, though it did get it right today.  |
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« Reply #7 on: 23:05:31, 10-04-2007 » |
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I remain as mystified as ever though as to what a 'Tchibo' actually is.
Well, when Carl Tchilling-Hiryan set up his coffee bean roasting business in 1949 he took the first little bit of his surname and the first little bit of the German word for beans and the rest is history. Your next test will be on the derivations of Ikea, Nylon and Haribo. |
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« Reply #8 on: 23:08:09, 10-04-2007 » |
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Nylon's easy. New York, London.
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« Reply #9 on: 23:11:33, 10-04-2007 » |
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Well they're all a little bit easy, Bryn. |
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« Reply #10 on: 23:13:45, 10-04-2007 » |
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Then there's Hans Riegel of Bonn, and Ingvar Kamprad of Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd, (but those I had to Google).
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George Garnett
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« Reply #11 on: 16:50:55, 11-04-2007 » |
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So 'Tchibo' is nothing to do with 'Cheapo' then.....  My Tchibo Hoof Telephones are very nice and worth every penny, I have no complaints at all , but they don't actually seem to block much more sound when 'Noise Blokker' is on than off. Am I expecting too much? I partly bought these because I could with a spare pair anyway (and was therefore grateful for Bryn's tip-off) and partly as a dry run to see whether it was worth paying large sums for some high quality Sennheisers equipped with (similar? similarish? not similar at all?) noise blocking technology. I'm not so sure I'll make that leap on the basis of what these ones do. Do proper noise blocking ones really block noise (like other people's annoying thumpy music) or am I straining after a holy grail that doesn't exist? |
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Bryn
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« Reply #12 on: 19:32:15, 11-04-2007 » |
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George, mine do 'block' a fair bit of low frequency environmental sound, which is what all the 'noise cancelling' headphones I have come across aim to do. Well almost all, I did try a pair of the "in ear" capsule type that seems to do nothing at all. What I like about these cheapo Tchibo 'noise blockers' is that they are of the circum-aural, whereas my little Sennheisers are supra-pinnal. They also seem to 'colour' the sound less than the Sennheisers.
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George Garnett
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« Reply #13 on: 19:41:24, 11-04-2007 » |
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'Noise cancelling'. That was the term I was trying to think of.
Thanks Bryn. I think I was perhaps expecting miracles. But I can see the significant advantage of cancelling out (some of) the constant level low frequency background noise if you happen to be in a train, plane or automobile, so a useful purchase. As for getting rid of other people's thumpy music, I'll just have to stick to the high velocity rifle (with silencer).
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« Reply #14 on: 22:36:43, 11-04-2007 » |
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Well obviously that's a possibility, George. But here are a couple of others: Koss have a very priceworthy set of what are basically earpieces built into earplugs. The actual headphone sound isn't great if used in a quiet environment but it's set up so that it compensates OK for ambient noise while flying. I've used them on long-haul flights for nearly a decade now and they've prevented quite a bit of further deterioration of my so-called 'sanity'. http://www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf/p?openform&pc%5Eeb%5EPLUGA bit further upmarket, Richard swears by the 'noise isolating' headphones on offer here: http://www.etymotic.com/A bit further downmarket there's always the Blob of Wax method. http://www.ohropax.de/ |
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